The Birth of the Carthaginian Empire

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Carthage spent most of the fifth century BC building up its economy, but in the aftermath of the disastrous Athenian expedition to Sicily, the Carthaginians decided that the time was ripe to create a new Mediterranean empire.

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0:17.7	The soldiers had left now, months after the fighting was over, but the two teenagers still
0:22.4	stepped carefully through the ruined streets of their city.
0:26.0	The island of Motia had been their home, and their parents' home, and their grandparents,
0:30.2	and still more, all the way back along the centuries, since their ancestors had come to
0:34.5	this place from Tyre so long ago.
0:37.3	Its high walls had seemed
0:38.2	so solid to them, so reassuring, so permanent.
0:41.7	Parts of the fortifications still stood, but inside little remained.
0:46.0	Motia was gone, reduced to rubble and cinders by the Syracusans.
0:51.1	The gentle sea breeze they had felt so many times lifted motes of dust and ash from the burned and collapsed structures as it blew around their loose tunics.
0:58.8	They avoided fallen, blackened timbers, walls reduced to scattered stones and scorched mud bricks.
1:05.2	Here and there the adolescents could see tiny bits of the city they'd know.
1:09.0	Carts stacked with storage jars, a house miraculously
1:12.1	untouched by fire, a set of mason's tools still in the spot where their owner had left them.
1:17.6	Those reminders were few and far between set amid a landscape of urban devastation.
1:22.8	The two teenagers were looking for their home near the large rectangular pool at the heart of
1:27.1	the island city.
1:28.3	Debris littered the artificial basin.
1:30.3	A marble statue of a god, its head missing and perhaps taken as a trophy by one of the Syracuse and conquerors,
1:36.3	lay just underneath the surface of the water.
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